UAB engineering students create walker to aid Children’s of Alabama patients

The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s School of Engineering has teamed up with Children’s of Alabama to bring an exciting new piece of equipment to young patients, particularly those who have undergone spinal fusion surgery. The halo traction walker was produced by senior UAB design students in Dr. Alan Eberhardt’s class as a part of the Biomedical Engineering Capstone Senior Design Course.  It has been created to maintain traction of the spine, which is a corrective decompression process that stretches and straightens the vertebrae, allowing patients to keep some mobility post operation w